Last October I revisited my first ever Stephen King novel, Pet Semetary, as part of Jenn’s Bookshelves First Book to Terrify Me feature. Since it was such a fun experiment for me, I thought I’d pick another King novel to read this year during 2014’s Murder, Monsters, and Mayhem. This year I’m choosing something new, […]

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American readers. My parents are in town from Michigan, so we’ll be having an extra special holiday here. I may not get a whole lot of reading done myself, but I’m very well aware that today marks the beginning of Jenn’s Bookshelves’ Thankfully Reading Weekend event. Are you participating? […]

Each Thanksgiving weekend, Jenn from Jenn’s Bookshelves hosts a free range weekend of reading. As she says, there’s no rules and no pressure. You just need a desire to read over the holiday weekend. There will be challenges for those who would like to participate in those as well. It’s really a nice time to […]

I’ve seen so many people list out one thing they’re thankful for each day during the month of November. As a lifelong reader, I’m thankful for the gift of books and my love of reading. What better way to celebrate than spending the Thanksgiving holiday reading thankfully? As if that weren’t enough, we can all […]

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! For the last 6 years, Thanksgiving has been an extremely subdued holiday. There have been years in fact where we didn’t even eat a proper Thanksgiving meal. Danny’s parents are not up to the cooking much any more and ordering a catered meal has become our modus operandi. Earlier in our marriage Danny and I […]